Jefford on Monday: Germany’s Big Dry
Andrew Jefford finds an up-and-coming group of German winemakers, dubbed Generation Riesling, emerging from a country with a strong vineyard tradition...
Award-winning wine writer Andrew Jefford’s Monday column on Decanter.com
Andrew Jefford finds an up-and-coming group of German winemakers, dubbed Generation Riesling, emerging from a country with a strong vineyard tradition...
'Limestone is the best party in the wine world,' says Chilean soil expert Pedro Parra, who joins Andrew Jefford on a road trip...
Some of the greatest Cahors wine terroirs are not even planted, writes Andrew Jefford, who argues the region's reputation will rise strongly in coming years
Andrew Jefford examines the proposed UK drinking limits and comments made by Britain’s chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies...
Andrew Jefford provides an organic wine health check ahead of France's biggest organic wine show, in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon...
In this week's column, Andrew Jefford reports on the Burgundy wine harvest for 2015.
I've never, alas, tasted an Araujo Estate Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the Eisele Vineyard. My newly acquired enthusiasm for great Napa Cabernet, though, suggests that I'd like it a lot. What was 'the undisclosed sum' paid by the Pinault family in late July to bring Araujo into the Latour stable? No one knows quite which two digits preceded the million dollar abbreviation. (Or were there, even, three?) The colossal disparity in land values, though, between Napa Cabernet vineyard and those of Coonawarra, Margaret River, or indeed any other location in the 'New World', is remarkable, and merits reflection by landowners in those other key Cabernet regions.
Did you realise that, with every glass of Meursault and Montrachet, you are drinking wine faeces? No, nor did I. This sobering insight came my way back in March, when I sat down one evening to talk at length to soil consultants Claude and Lydia Bourguignon.
Scores for wines are philosophically untenable, aesthetically noxious – but have great practical value. Wine scores will, therefore, be with us for as long as human beings drink wine. A shockingly beautiful recent bottle made me think about a little-discussed aspect of this analytical tool.